Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist)

<b>This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change.</b><br><br>In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life....<br><br>In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels <i>The Drowned Cities</i> and <i>Tool of War</i>.<br><br>"Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with <i>The Hunger Games</i>...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><br><b>A New York Times Bestseller<br>A Michael L. Printz Award Winner<br>A National Book Award Finalist<br>A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book<br>A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book</b>